New Canon Pastor Of The Cathedral

Father Joseph Pae Father Joseph Pae has been appointed as Canon Pastor of the Cathedral of the Incarnation by The Right Reverend Orris G. Walker, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. Father Joseph has been serving at the Cathedral as an assistant priest. The announcement by Father Theodore Bean, Provost of the Cathedral, was greeted with a standing ovation of approval from the congregation.

Father Joseph came to the United States from his birthplace in South Korea at the age of four. As a cradle Episcopalian, Father Joseph's father is a retired bishop of Tae Chun, South Korea. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and worked in Seattle, Washington before enrolling at Yale-Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut.

After graduating from seminary, he went to Seabury-Western in Evanston, Illinois where he received a certificate of advanced theological studies. Before coming to the Cathedral, Father Pae served as a clergy resident participating in the Foundations of Spiritual Leadership at the historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia.

Father Joseph has served in a variety of settings including St. Martin's Korean Episcopal Church in Philadelphia as a director of faith formation, St. Joseph/Trinity Church in Flushing as a youth director, and as a port chaplain at Seamen's Church in Newark, New Jersey. He completed his field education at St. Augustine's in Wilmette, Illinois and his Clinical Pastoral Education requirement as a hospital chaplain in Olympia, Washington.

Father Joseph was ordained a deacon by Bishop Walker at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in 2003 and as a priest by Archbishop Desmond Tutu at historic Christ Church in 2004.

His presence at the Cathedral has been very welcomed by everyone in the congregation. He has already been successful in bringing many new and successful ideas and programs to the Cathedral members.